Quite a few plants throughout North America have the common name of Blue-eyed grass. These different species of the Sisyrinchium genus have very similar identifying characteristics. This plant portrait features Sisyrinchium angustifolium.
The leaves are thin, linear and smooth — arising at the base of the plant.
Blue-eyed grass flowers have six bristle-tipped tepals which may look light blue through light purple in color. The center of the flower is bright yellow.
After the flower is fertilized, the seeds develop inside a spherical seed capsule.
Watch this video about Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) to learn how this plant is not a grass — and to closely observe the flower’s reproductive parts.
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